tagonistic Hypotheses. - The Law of Suggestion. —A Case of " Mediumistic" Development. - The Alleged Spirit Con- trol assumes a Dictatorship. It develops a Passion for Music. Music the Language of the Emotions. A purely Subjective Faculty. - Subjective Music and Objective Music Absurdities In- . 225 The Brain not the Sole Organ of the Mind. - Surgeon-General Hammond's Researches and Experiments. - The Instinctive Faculties. The Subjective Mind acts independently of the Brain. Instinctive Acts Performed after the Brain was to- tally eliminated. - Children Born without a Brain perform all the Instinctive Functions. - The Medulla Oblongata and Duality in the Lower Animals. A Primordial Fact. - cal Basis for Immortality. - The Ultimate Goal of Psychic Evolution. Evidence of Design in Psychic Development. - Definition of " 'Design."— Nature conceals God. - Man reveals God. · The Functions of the Soul. - Design evinced in the Facts of Organic Evolution. - The Benevolence of God. Painless Death. - The Universal Anæsthetic. - God 250 Every Faculty of the Mind has its Use or Function. - Faculties of the Soul which perform no Normal Function in this Life. - The Man and the Brute psychically Differentiated. — Ego- The Necessity for limiting the Powers of the Subjective Mind in this Life.. Man a Free Moral Agent. The Law of Sug- gestion a Necessity. — Limitations of Power pertain only to this Life. - Induction unnecessary in the Future Life. — In- tuition takes its Place. Induction Impossible when the Power of Perception exists. - The Higher Intuitional Powers A purely Intellectual Existence with- out Memory, Emotion, or Personality. The Basis of their Philosophy.— Incomplete Observation of Psychic Powers. — Ignorance of the Law of Suggestion. — Requisites for the Retention of Personality. - Memory. Consciousness. Will. Will is Desire. The Strongest Desire of the Soul. - Egoism and Egotism of the Soul.- Egoism the Normal Desire for Retention of Personality. - Egotism Abnormal All the Affectional Emotions Retained in the Future Life. Telepathy the Means of Communion in the Future Life. The Abnormality of Psychic Manifestations. - The Dangers at- tending Psychic Activity. — The Different Forms of Psychic Development. — Psychic Powers inversely Proportioned to Health. - Unsuspected Dangers. - Musicians. Stenogra- A SCIENTIFIC DEMONSTRATION OF THE FUTURE LIFE. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. Bacon's Monument to Common Sense. - The First to recognize the True Value of a Fact. The Law of Correct Reasoning. Its Simplicity. The Essentials of a Correct Hypothesis. - Inductive Reasoning. The Copernican System. - Defective Methods of Reasoning employed by the Greek Philosophers. Speculative Philosophy subject to the Law of Reaction. The Inductive Sciences insure Permanent Progress. Natural Theology at a Standstill. - The Conflict between Religion and Science. — Voltaire and Paine. - Their Assaults upon Dogma. - Their Religion. The Triumph of Science. - The Doctrine of Evolution. New Controversy. — Religion and Science not Antagonistic. Immortality a Proper Question for Scientific Investigation. — If True, it is Important. — If Important, it can be Demonstrated. - A "MAN, the minister and interpreter of Nature, does and understands so much as he may have discerned concerning the order of Nature by observing or by meditating on facts: he knows no more, he can do no more.' These words are Bacon's; the italics are mine. "1 If the great Lord Chancellor had written and expounded but that one sentence, he would have been entitled not 1 Novum Organum, book i. p. I. only to the eternal gratitude of all mankind, but to the credit of having builded the grandest monument to Common Sense that was ever erected by human genius. This eulogium will not seem extravagant when it is remembered that Bacon was the first man who taught the world the true value of a fact; that is to say, he was the first to discover and formulate the fundamental truth that all successful inquiry concerning the order of Nature must of necessity be founded upon a solid basis of well-authenticated facts. When we contemplate the wondrous civilization of ancient Greece and Rome, their advancement in the science of government, the beauty and grace of their literature, the subtleties and refinements of their philosophy, the transcendent genius of their artists, the grandeur and nobility of their architecture, it seems strange, incomprehensible, incredible, that the discovery of this self-evident truth was left for a civilization built upon a soil which was not rescued from barbarism when the Parthenon began to decay and the Coliseum to crumble. But such was the tardiness of human progress the conservatism of the human mind -in the days before it had broken the shackles of authority, when opinions had the force of enactments, and dogmas were regulated by statute. What is now, to the unperverted mind of the average school-boy, a self-evident proposition, struck the scientific mind of the Elizabethan age with the force of a revelation; and it is safe to say that the world owes all its subsequent progress in material science to the process of reasoning and of scientific investigation formulated and developed by Francis Bacon. Nay, more. The world not only owes all its substantial progress to that source, but the inductive process is the the stability of our civilization, and of its constant advancement for all time. sure guaranty of The laws of correct reasoning are as immutable as the law of gravity; and, properly applied, are as certain and |